Information literacy skills among university students have become a necessity rather than the norm. With the increase of information resources, the need for information skills among university students is important for their continued access to, and retrieval of, information. The purpose of this research was to investigate information literacy skills and competencies among incoming first-year undergraduate students in institutions of higher learning in Kenya, with special reference to the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. The objectives of the study were; to identify the types and formats of resources that incoming undergraduate students are aware of, to determine whether the incoming undergraduates are aware of search strategies for both print and electronic/online resources, to determine whether incoming undergraduate students possess basic information technology skills, to find out whether incoming undergraduate students know information retrieval tools and their use, and to determine whether incoming students are aware of intellectual property and copyrighted materials and their ethical use. The study adopted a quantitative approach and used the case study research method. The study targeted first year incoming undergraduate students at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa for the academic year 2013/2014. 137 incoming undergraduate students participated in the study. Data was collected by using self-administered questionnaires. Quantitative data was coded and analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Qualitative data generated form open-ended questions was presented in narrative form under respective subheadings. The finding of the study observed that: (a) Incoming first-year students have limited knowledge of strategies used to search for information. (b) The incoming first-year undergraduate students at the Catholic university of Eastern Africa do possess computer skills in applications such as the use of the internet and its applications (e.g. social networking sites and the World Wide Web) as well as the word-processing applications such as (Microsoft Office and Microsoft Word) and statistical applications such as SPSS. (c) Majority of incoming undergraduate university students are not familiar with the various retrieval tools and their applications. (d) The incoming first-year undergraduate students are familiar with both electronic and printed information resources. (e) A significant number of students were not aware what constitutes primary resources and secondary sources. (f) Incoming first-year undergraduate students exhibited little knowledge of issues relating to intellectual property rights and copyright. Several recommendations have been made based on the findings of the study. One of the recommendations is that the university library mandated with offering information literacy instruction to incoming students should adopt several incentives aimed at encouraging the students to attend library orientation. Another recommendation is to integrate the information literacy training with the normal university curriculum to become a credit-earning course for all incoming students. The university library should also carry out a needs assessment on information literacy training to help determine the existing gaps in the current information literacy programme. The programme should also be tailored to help in emerging issues such electronic plagiarism of information resources. The study further recommends a longitudinal study to determine whether students joining the university are able to gain information literacy skills over a period of time. / Information Science

What does it mean to be academically literate? Responses to this question have led to an explosion of research in the field of applied linguistics, yet the diversity of definitions proposed in the literature for the concept of literacy per se indicate that it continues to defy consensus. Literacy, and specifically by extension academic literacy, must thus be recognised as a contested field, with different meanings for different people and inevitable tensions between those taking positions on or affected by its practical implications. Accepting its contested status, this study sought to explore student representations of academic literacy, academic staff representations of academic literacy and associated academic staff representations of students insofar as these touch on specific concerns of academic literacy in an engineering faculty. The purpose of this exploration was to determine how these representations permeate academic practice and inform pedagogical practice and attitudes to learning. This led to the research thesis, that dominant discourses produce certain practices which can lead to social exclusion/inclusion of students. Such a thesis, allows for an examination of institutional practices of teaching and learning. To do this, I employed a multidisciplinary approach drawn from applied linguistics, sociology and philosophy. Consequently, I drew on theories from James Paul Gee, Pierre Bourdieu, Basil Bernstein and Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger to understand the socio-cultural context where representation occurs. An understanding of these discourses and epistemologies also necessitated an approach that probed participants‘ versions of reality. Consequently, this research was premised within a Critical Realist ontology whose central tenet is the recognition of tripartite framework of reality. Within this framework, reality is comprised of the domains of the real, actual and the empirical. The domain of the empirical relates to perceptions of experiences, while the actual is concerned with events that produce these experiences. The real is the domain of generative mechanisms, which if activated, produce the events and experiences in the other domains. Data was collected to correspond to these domains, with critical focus on the analysis of underlying mechanisms which reproduce social reality. To establish how the real relates to the other domains, Fairclough‘s critical discourse analysis was adopted. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.

Information literacy is widely acknowledged as important for student success in higher education. Information literacy is the ability to sort through a large amount of available information, decide what is useful and believable, and apply it in an effective and ethical way. Faculty members have expectations regarding information literacy for students in the first year of college, while students have information literacy practices that may or may not match those expectations. In my study, I examined the alignment of faculty member information literacy expectations and student information literacy practices, focusing on freshman students and faculty members who teach freshman students in a required general education course at a public university in the northwestern United States. Using an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design, I began my study with qualitative interviews of students and faculty members, used data from the interviews to develop a survey instrument, conducted a pilot study with the survey instrument, and used the survey instrument to administer an online quantitative survey to 106 students and 10 faculty members. The survey consisted of 42 items pertaining to student practices and faculty expectations as identified by student and faculty member interview participants. Survey data showed the percentage of faculty members expecting a practice was generally higher than the percentage of students carrying out that practice. Overall, the study findings revealed a gap between faculty expectations and student practices.

This study explored what effect information literacy instruction (ILI) may have on both a generalized anxiety state and library anxiety specifically. The population studied was international students using resources in a community college. Library anxiety among international students begins with certain barriers that cause anxiety (i.e., language/communication barriers, adjusting to a new education/library system and general cultural adjustments). Library Anxiety is common among college students and is characterized by feelings of negative emotions including, ruminations, tension, fear and mental disorganization (Jiao & Onwuegbuzie, 1999a). This often occurs when a student contemplates conducting research in a library and is due to any number of perceived inabilities about using the library. In order for students to become successful in their information seeking behavior this anxiety needs to be reduced. The study used two groups of international students enrolled in the English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) program taking credit courses. Each student completed Bostick's Library Anxiety Scale (LAS) and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) to assess anxiety level before and after treatment. Subjects were given a research assignment that required them to use library resources. Treatment: Group 1 (experimental group) attended several library instruction classes (the instruction used Kuhltau's information search process model). Group 2 (control group) was in the library working on assignment but did not receive any formal library instruction. After the treatment the researcher and ESOL program instructor(s) measured the level of anxiety between groups. ANCOVA was used to analyze Hypotheses 1 and 2, which compared pretest and posttest for each group. Research assignment grades were used to analyze Hypothesis 3 comparing outcomes among the two groups. The results of the analysis ascertained that ILI was associated with reducing state and library anxiety among international students when given an assignment using library resources.

Orientador: Angela Bustos Romero de Kleiman / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T16:21:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DeGrande_PaulaBaracat_D.pdf: 5260797 bytes, checksum: fa55a4459fe92e02e221f82dcae36137 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: / Resumo: A pesquisa tem como objetivo geral conhecer e compreender práticas de letramento formativas do professor em seu local de trabalho. Mais especificamente, a investigação busca identificar e analisar eventos de letramento de formação em reuniões de corpo docente dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental que, no Estado de São Paulo, eram chamadas de Hora de Trabalho Pedagógico Coletivo (HTPC). A perspectiva teórica adotada é baseada na abordagem sociocultural dos Estudos de Letramento e na concepção dialógica de linguagem do Círculo de Bakhtin. De caráter qualitativo-interpretativista e de cunho etnográfico, a pesquisa tem como corpus dados gerados em observação participante realizada durante um ano com um grupo de professoras em uma escola pública do interior paulista. Os resultados da pesquisa mostram que as professoras construíram dois tipos de eventos bastante distintos no tempo oficialmente dedicado à sua formação no local de trabalho: um deles, aqui chamado de HTPC-aula, ocorria entre professoras de uma mesma unidade escolar e a coordenadora pedagógica e se aproximava de características interacionais da aula expositiva, seguindo o padrão IRA de interação; o outro tipo de evento, chamado HTPC-oficina, era realizado entre professoras de toda a rede de ensino atuantes em um mesmo ano tendo em vista conteúdos cobrados em avaliações externas dos governos estadual e federal e se assemelhava, em termos interacionais, a uma oficina, em que as professoras encenavam situações e estratégias de ensino de sala de aula. Ao serem colocadas no lugar e na função de formadoras de suas colegas, as professoras adotam a brincadeira, o jogo simbólico, que atualiza os papéis de alunos e professores e dissolve relações de poder que as colocam em papéis assimétricos. As diferenças interacionais nas estruturas de participação de cada tipo de evento, nas relações entre as participantes e em suas identidades construídas na interação têm reflexos nos gêneros mobilizados e nos temas desenvolvidos, no sentido bakhtiniano. Outra prática de formação do professor bastante presente nas HTPCs, principalmente nas reuniões que adotam como modelo de interação a aula, era a leitura de textos dos gêneros de autoajuda e religiosos. Em um contexto cada vez mais complexo para atuação docente, a função da autoajuda e da religião na formação do professor é a de dar sentido à docência, de construir alternativas possíveis nos limites postos pela realidade onde realizam suas funções. Os resultados obtidos na pesquisa podem contribuir para que formadores de professores (re)pensem sua atuação na formação docente inicial e continuada e para o (re)planejamento de políticas públicas que têm em vista o professor / Abstract: / Abstract: The present research aims to know and understand teachers' formative literacy practices at their workplace. More specifically, the investigation identifies and analyzes literacy events in meetings designed for elementary school teacher¿s continuing education at the workplace. The theoretical perspective adopted is based on the New Literacy Studies sociocultural approach and on the dialogical conception of language of Bakhtin's Circle. From a methodological perspective, the research is qualitative-interpretative and ethnographic, with a corpus generated through participant observation carried out for over a year with a group of teachers in a public school in the state of São Paulo. The results show that the teachers developed two different types of events in the time officially dedicated to their workplace continuing education: one of them, a classroom lesson event type (HTPC-aula), occurred when the teachers belonged to the same schools, and followed the interactional patterns of a school lesson IRA; in the second type of event, that functioned interactionally like a workshop, teachers simulated classroom situations and teaching strategies and occurred when the teachers of more than one school, teaching the same grade level, were involved, with the objective of preparing their students for national and state achievement. When trey are put in the place of instructors of their colleagues, the teachers adopt the symbolic play, which updates the roles of students and teachers and dissolve power relations that put them in asymmetric roles. Interactional differences in participation structures of each type of event, in the relation among the participants and their identities constructed in the interaction had effects on the genres mobilized and the themes, in Bakhtin's sense, that were developed. Another practice observed, mainly in the meetings that follow the class interaction model, was the reading of texts of the self-help genre and religious genre. In an increasingly complex context for teaching practice, the role of self-help and religion genres in teacher formative practices is to give meaning to teaching, to build alternatives within the limits posed by the reality where they perform their work. The results of the research may contribute to teachers¿ conitinuing education programs and to (re)design public policies aimed at teachers¿ development and continuing education / Doutorado / Lingua Materna / Doutora em Lingüística Aplicada

Thesis (PhD (School of Public Management and Planning ))—University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since 1994, education and training in South Africa has experienced various changes, driven mainly by the Green Paper on Skills Development and the White Paper on Education which set objectives and outcomes and gave guidelines on how education and training should be approached, planned, and managed. The White Paper on Education necessitated change in SA tertiary institutions such as Stellenbosch University and its respective faculties. The Faculty of Military Science, which is situated at the South African Military Academy (SAMA) in Saldanha, accepted the challenge of contributing to the full personal development of students, by undertaking to shape people capable of organising and managing themselves and their human activities, including their financial activities, responsibly and effectively. The success of higher education institutions in empowering young people to be financially capable is questioned by various publications and surveys. Preliminary findings from surveys in 2004 and 2005 among students at the SAMA suggest that they are largely financially illiterate, thus potentially economically volatile. These findings introduce the research problem and serve as a foundation for the development of a scientific, socially relevant, valid and reliable financial literacy measurement instrument. A combined qualitative and quantitative research methodology is applied to develop a measurement instrument, which is then assessed for validity and reliability by applying it in a case study. The secondary objective of this research is the social study of the financial knowledge, financial behaviour and financial attitude levels of individuals. To ensure relevance between the case study and the measurement instrument, financial literacy is initially evaluated as a management competency. Financial literacy is stated as a key competency in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The financial literacy measurement instrument was constructed after an exploration of the contextual and conceptual nature of financial literacy. A questionnaire was selected as the ideal method of gathering the required information. The questionnaire’s validity and reliability were assessed as part of descriptive research in the development phase, as well as in the case study. The face and content validity were proven through input from respondents and subject experts. Reliability of the measurement instrument was assessed by calculating item difficulty, item discrimination, means, standard deviations and ultimately the internal consistency of the financial knowledge, behaviour and attitude sections of the measurement instrument. In the case study first-year students achieved an average of 50.17% for their financial knowledge although they rated their own knowledge levels to be 60.8%. The respondents struggled most with questions pertaining to investment, insurance, and inflation, and least with retirement and income and expenditure questions. This research underlines the importance of financial literacy as a management competency and its importance at a global, national, organisational and personal level. It produces a valid and reliable financial literacy measurement instrument that can be used by different stakeholders in South Africa to assess financial knowledge, behaviour and attitude, and thus indicate where intervention is required. Having a valid and reliable measurement instrument for measuring financial literacy creates opportunity for future research and development. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Sedert 1994 het die opvoeding- en opleidingsteater in Suid-Afrika dramatiese veranderinge ondergaan met veral die die Groenskrif op Vaardigheidsontwikkeling en die Witskrif op Opvoeding, wat die doelwitte en uitkomste gestel het en die toon aangegee het in terme van hoe opvoeding en opleiding aangepak, beplan en bestuur behoort te word. Verandering genoodsaak deur die Witskrif op Opvoeding sou by assosiasie ook verandering noodsaak in SA tersiêre inrigtings soos Stellenbosch Universiteit en haar fakulteite. Die Fakulteit Krygskunde, gevestig by die Suid-Afrkaanse Millitêre Akademie (SAMA) in Saldanha, het die uitdaging aanvaar om by te dra tot die totale persoonlike ontwikkeling van studente deur te onderneem om mense te vorm wat in staat sal wees om hulself en hul aktiwiteite verantwoordelik en doeltreffend te bestuur, insluitend hul finansiële aktiwiteite. Hoër Onderwys se sukses met die bemagtiging van jong mense tot finansieel vaardige individue is deur verskeie navorsingsverslae bevraagteken. Voorlopige bevindinge van studies in 2004 en 2005 onder voograadse studente van die SAMA is dat hulle grootliks finansieel ongeletterd is en gevolglik ekonomies kwesbaar. Die bevindinge is die vertrekpunt van die probleemstelling vir hierdie studie, en vorm die basis vir die ontwikkeling van 'n wetenskaplik- en sosiaalrelevante, geldige en betroubare finansiële geletterdheidsmetingsinstrument. 'n Gekombineerde kwalitatiefkwantitatiewe navorsingsmetodologie is toegepas in die ontwikkeling van 'n metingsinstrument, en die verbandhoudende bepaling van sy geldigheid en betroubaarheid deur die toepassing daarvan in 'n gevallestudie. Die sekondêre doelwit van hierdie navorsing is die sosiale studie van die finansiële kennis-, finansiële gedrags- en finansiële houdingsvlakke van individue. Ten einde relevansie tussen die gevallestudie en die metingsinstrument te verseker, is finansiële geletterdheid aanvanklik as 'n bestuursvaardigheid geëvalueer. Finansiële geletterdheid word in die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag (SANW), as kernvaardigheid aangedui. Die finansiële geletterdheidsinstrument is gekonstrueer na 'n verkenning van die konteksuele en konsepsuele aard van finansiële geletterdheid. 'n Vraelys is geselekteer as die ideale metode om die relevante data te bekom. Die vraelys se geldigheid en betroubaarheid is as deel van deskriptiewe navorsing in die ontwikkelingsfase, en ook tydens die gevallestudie, bepaal. Die gesigs- en inhoudsgeldigheid is bevestig deur respondentterugvoer en vakspesialisinsette. Betroubaarheid van die metingsinstrument is bepaal deur die berekening van itemmoeilikheidsgraad, itemdiskriminasie, gemiddelde, standaardafwyking en uiteindelik interne betroubaarheid van die finansiële kennis-, gedrags- en houdingsafdelings van die metingsinstrument. In die gevallestudie, het eerstejaarstudente 'n gemiddeld van 50.17% vir die kennisfaktor behaal, alhoewel hulle hul eie kennisvlakke gemiddeld as 60.8% aangedui het. Respondente het hoofsaaklik gesukkel met kennisvrae wat handel oor beleggings, versekering en inflasie. Hul het die minste gesukkel met kennisvrae wat handel oor aftrede en inkomste en uitgawes. Hierdie navorsing bevestig die belangrikheid van finansiële geletterdheid as bestuursvaardigheid, asook op 'n globale, nasionale, organisatoriese en persoonlike vlak. Hierdie studie het 'n geldige en betroubare finansiële geletterdheidsmetingsinstrument opgelewer; een wat deur diverse finansiële geletterdheidsaandeelhouers in Suid-Afrika aangewend kan word. Hierdie metingsinstrument sal empiriese inligting oor finansiële kennis-, gedrags-, en houdingsvlakke genereer en aantoon waar intervensie benodig word. Die belangrikheid van finansiële geletterdheid, sowel as die noodsaak vir 'n geldige en geloofwaardige metingsinstrument, is geleenthede vir verdere navorsing en ontwikkeling.

This study is designed to reveal whether students acquire the domains and levels of library skills discussed in a learning library skills theory after participating in an online library instruction tutorial. The acquisition of the library skills is demonstrated through a review of the scores on online tutorial quizzes, responses to a library skills questionnaire, and bibliographies of course research papers. Additional areas to be studied are the characteristics of the participants enrolled in traditional and online courses at a community college and the possible influence of these characteristics on the demonstrated learning of library skills. Multiple measurement methods, identified through assessment of library instruction literature, are used to verify the effectiveness of the library skills theory and to strengthen the validity and reliability of the study results.

This study investigated the information literacy of aspirant barristers in Nigeria and examined the steps undertaken to restructure the legal education system in Nigeria. It explored the connection between contextual influences and professional development, particularly with respect to the concept of legal information literacy and the value of acquired educational skills in the context of legal practice in Nigeria. The theoretical framework that underpinned the study was derived from the application of Kuhlthau’s (1993) Information Search Process (ISP) and Byström’s (1999) theory of Information Activity in Work. Kuhlthau’s model was relevant for investigating issues of uncertainty in the information seeking behaviour of the aspirant barristers and further confirmed the empirical validity of the model in the educational and workplace contexts. Byström’s theory was also valuable in analysing problems of task complexity experienced by the aspirant barristers in information use. The study employed a case study method; the data collection process involved the administration of questionnaires to the aspirant barristers and law firms to which they were assigned for vocational training. A mixed method approach was used to provide complementary insights to the findings of the study. Key findings from the study were supportive of the importance of information literacy as being central to the development of professional competence of the aspirant barristers which can be achieved through re-structuring the teaching methods and curricula of the Nigerian Law School. Outcomes from the study also pointed to a need for greater collaboration between the legal education system and the legal profession in narrowing the gap between the teaching and practice of law in Nigeria. Collaboration with academic librarians and legal information specialists is also necessary with respect to the role that these two groups can play in the design and implementation of an information literacy framework for the legal education system in Nigeria. The study makes recommendations for the adoption and integration of information literacy as a conceptual framework into the curriculum of the Nigerian Law School. In this way skills training can be enhanced. The information literacy model, designed as part of the recommendations from this study, provides guidelines for the various processes by which a teaching model that is unique to the context of the legal education system in Nigeria can be developed, tested and implemented. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2012.

Thesis (MTech(Education)--Cape Technikon, Cape Town, 2001 / This study presents a theoretical evaluative framework for information literacy initiatives. The evaluative framework is based on a holistic behavioural taxonomic approach incorporating affective, cognitive, and physical domains. In this study the behavioural taxonomic approach was applied to the evaluation of a historical information literacy initiative, the IFYE (Integrated First Year Experience), developed by the Cape T echnikon in 1997, South Africa. The motivating factor behind the evaluation was to determine whether it would be suitable as an implementable initiative at other institutions in the Western Cape. This coincided with the aims of Infolit, who had invited institutions of Higher Education to submit pilot projects on information literacy in a drive to promote information literacy throughout the Western Cape. Although the IFYE initiative may not have realised its full potential, information literacy has drawn continued interest and other initiatives have since been developed. Application of two eXlsttng taxonomles, demonstrated distinct limitations in their application and a new taxonomy was developed within the South African educational context. The new taxonomy was applied to the theoretical evaluation of an innovative elearning information literacy initiative developed by the Cape Technikon in 2000, which has been accepted by Infolit for wider implementation throughout the Western Cape. The final section of the study presents recommendations based on the evaluation of the elearning initiative, information literacy initiatives in general, and structural changes to the developed taxonomy. Areas for further research are also discussed.

Orientador: Raquel Salek Fiad / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T18:48:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pasquotte-Vieira_ElianeAparecida_D.pdf: 3192754 bytes, checksum: e8a96418111cab8ad4b08a2677fd8dac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Situada na Linguística Aplicada e com o objetivo de refletir a partir de uma perspectiva discursiva e etnográfica sobre a integração dos sujeitos a práticas letradas acadêmicas, esta tese está fundamentada, por um lado, nas proposições teóricas de Bakhtin (2006 [1929-30]; 2003 [1952-1953]; 1993 [1919-1921]; 1976 [1926]) sobre enunciação, dialogismo, alteridade, construção de sentidos, posicionamentos discursivos, gêneros discursivos e, consequentemente, sobre a relação sujeito e linguagem como um fenômeno social, histórico e essencialmente dinâmico; e, por outro, nos aportes teórico-metodológicos dos "Letramentos Acadêmicos", segundo estudos desenvolvidos ao longo dos últimos 15 anos por autores britânicos, como Lea (1999), Lea & Street (2006 e 1998), Lillis (2008, 2003, 2001 e 1999), Lillis & Scott (2007), Street (2010 e 2009). Dessa maneira, esta tese se constrói segundo uma perspectiva etnográfico-linguística, desenvolvida mais especificamente a partir do que Lillis (2008) tem entendido como "história do texto", ou seja, uma concepção teórico-metodológica que considera simultaneamente para a análise tanto o texto quanto dados de outras naturezas que estão ao redor do texto, num contexto específico que o envolve. Assim, a partir de um estudo de caso, esta tese se constrói sobre uma discussão teórico-analítica que privilegia dados diversificados, provindos de um exame de qualificação de dissertação de mestrado em Agricultura e Ambiente, com o objetivo específico de refletir sobre a "história do texto" da mestranda [S] a partir do processo dialógico que envolveu (a) a versão escrita de sua dissertação entregue para o exame de qualificação, (b) as notas escritas dos professores da banca sobre essa dissertação, (c) os comentários orais dos professores e da mestranda durante o exame de qualificação e (d) os fragmentos extraídos de uma entrevista concedida pela mestranda após o exame. Para investigar essa "história do texto", a análise dos dados ocupou-se de três categorias para sua delimitação: (i) os posicionamentos sócio-históricos ocupados pelos sujeitos ? no sentido bakhtiniano ? no momento em que o exame de qualificação ocorreu, (ii) as interlocuções e (iii) as relações de poder ali estabelecidas. Verificou-se que o diálogo ocorrido durante o exame de qualificação constituiu-se num importante processo de negociação que, através da alteridade, levou a mestranda a (re)significações sobre a prática acadêmico-científica de escrita da dissertação de mestrado e a (re)posicionamentos como um sujeito discursivo. A conclusão é de que esse processo dialógico de negociação é fundamental às práticas letradas acadêmicas, as quais emergem bem mais de sujeitos discursivos do ponto de vista bakhtiniano do que de sujeitos envolvidos apenas com o desenvolvimento de habilidades de escrita ou com a socialização do saber acadêmico. Esta tese busca, dessa forma, contribuir com os estudos dos Letramentos Acadêmicos à medida que, por esse prisma, é possível deslocar o discurso do déficit e da crise da escrita existente nas esferas acadêmicas para uma perspectiva que toma os letramentos acadêmicos como práticas letradas situadas socioculturalmente e, por isso, sempre demandam processos de integração segundo uma perspectiva discursiva e de negociação dialógica / Abstract: This thesis is situated in Applied Linguistics and reflects from a discursive and ethnographic perspective on the integration of subjects in academic literacy practices. For this reason, this work is founded, on the one hand, on Bakhtin¿s concepts (2006 [1929-30], 2003, [1952-1953], 1993 [1919-1921], 1976 [1926]) of enunciation, dialogism, process of meaning, speech subjects, speech genres, and consequently on the relationship between subjects and language as a social, historical and dynamic phenomenon. On the other hand, this work is developed on the basis of the theoretical and methodological contributions from the "Academic Literacies" studies, which have been conducted over the past 15 years by British authors as Lea (1999), Lea & Street (2006 and 1998), Lillis (2008, 2003, 2001 and 1999), Lillis & Scott (2007), Street (2010 and 2009). Hence, this thesis is underpinned by a linguistic ethnographic perspective, based more specifically on what Lillis (2008) has understood as "text history", that is, a theoretical and methodological framework for the simultaneous analysis of the text and of other data from the situated context "around the text". As a case study, this thesis is founded on a theoretical and analytical discussion that emphasizes diversified data stemming from a qualifying exam of a masters dissertation in Agriculture and Environment, with the specific aim to reflect on the "text history" of the masters student [S], across the dialogic process involving (a) the written version of her dissertation for the qualifying exam, (b) the written notes from the professors of the Qualifying Committee on this dissertation, (c) the oral comments from the professors and [S] during the qualifying exam and (d) extracts from the interview with [S] after the exam. For the investigation about this "text history", the data analysis has focused on three categories: (i) the socio-historical placements of the subjects ? in Bakhtin¿s sense of the term ? during the qualifying exam, (ii) the interlocutors in dialogue, and (iii) the power relations established among the subjects in the place and time in which the dissertation qualifying exam took place. It was found that dialogue during the qualifying exam constituted an important negotiation process because, through the alterity, [S] was building her (re)meanings on the academic-scientific practice of writing of the masters dissertation and her (re) placements as a speech subject. The conclusion is that the dialogic process of negotiation is crucial to academic literacy practices because these practices emerge more from speech subjects from the Bakhtin¿s viewpoint, than of subjects that have worked only with writing skills or socialization of academic knowledge. Thereby, this thesis aims to contribute to Academic Literacies studies considering that the dialogic perspective is able to move the debate about the writing deficit and the writing crisis in the academic spheres to a place where academic literacies have been taken as socially and culturally situated practices. These practices require constant processes of integration according to a discursive perspective and dialogic negotiation / Doutorado / Lingua Materna / Doutora em Lingüística Aplicada